Mount Lorette (22 Apr 2025) 9 Raptors
Alberta, Canada
| Daily Raptor Counts: Apr 22, 2025 | |||
| Species | Day’s Count | Month Total | Season Total |
| Turkey Vulture | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Osprey | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bald Eagle | 1 | 21 | 77 |
| Northern Harrier | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 0 | 8 | 10 |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| American Goshawk | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| Broad-winged Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Swainson’s Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 0 | 22 | 24 |
| Ferruginous Hawk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rough-legged Hawk | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Golden Eagle | 5 | 155 | 1093 |
| American Kestrel | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Merlin | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Gyrfalcon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Peregrine Falcon | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Prairie Falcon | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Unknown Accipitrine | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Unknown Buteo | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| Unknown Falcon | 1 | 6 | 6 |
| Unknown Eagle | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| Unknown Raptor | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Total: | 9 | 246 | 1260 |
| Observation start time: | 09:00:00 |
| Observation end time: | 16:00:00 |
| Total observation time: | 7 hours |
| Official Counter | Lynette MacCulloch |
| Observers: | Rosemary Power |
Visitors:
Eleven people stopped to chat. Several had their own binoculars and observed for their own interest.
Weather:
Upon arrival at the observation site, the sky was blue, the sun was shining but immediately the clouds billowed up from the mountain tops and covered the sky and sent graupel hurtling down. The temperature was zero and made its way to plus 3. winds were very light mostly from the west, occasionally northwest and north east. Ridge winds were barely discernable, very light from the west, high winds also from the west, or south but light. Cumulous clouds dominated with cumulonimbus showing up on the horizon at times. After two graupel showers, there was only sun and clouds.
Raptor Observations:
4 Golden eagles(2sa,1j,1u), I unknown Falcon, 1 unknown accipiter, 1 subadult Bald eagle and 1 adult Goshawk were seen migrating. All appeared over the east side of the valley and caught good lines that carried them quickly beyond Mt Lorette. The resident Bald eagle was seen flying over the valley and was pestered by a Sharp-shinned hawk, which must also be a resident. The resident Goshawk flew up the valley and the resident Golden eagles put on a show over Skogan pass, flying close to one another , then seemed to be hunting separately around Mt Lorette.
Non-raptor Observations:
Other birds seen at the site were 2 Mallards, 5 Canada Geese, 10 Ravens, 6 Dark-eyed Junco’s, 3 Mountain Chickadees, 2 Black-capped Chickadees, I golden-crowned Kinglet, I Golden-eye duck, and a flock of about 16 Cedar Waxwings flew over twice. The Kingfisher showed up around noon, Several robins , a Varied thrush flew overhead. The ruffed Grouse thumped till noon and the Fox sparrow was heard but not seen.
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